Language and Communication Disorders Quiz

A language disorder is a different impairment than a _____ disorder.

• speech sound

• hearing

• vision

• cognitive

_____ is NOT a process involved in speech production.

• Articulation

• Phonation

• Resonation

• Photosynthesis

Broca’s area of the brain is primarily involved in the _____

• production of speech

• regulation of emotions

• coordination of movement

• processing of visual information

By what age have most typically-developing children acquired the ability to produce ALL speech sounds? _____

• By age 8

• By age 5

• By age 3

• By age 10

An articulation disorder is _____ than a phonological disorder. An articulation disorder is diagnosed when a child has difficulty with the motor act of producing speech sounds, while a phonological disorder is diagnosed when a child continues to use phonological processes past an expected age.

• different

• similar

• identical

• unrelated

The element of language concerned with how words are put together to make sentences is _____

• Syntax

• Morphology

• Phonology

• Semantics

The smallest linguistic unit that carries meaning is a _____

• morpheme

• phoneme

• syllable

• letter

Semantic learning involves acquiring a word's meaning by understanding its _____, its category, its features, and how it relates to other concepts.

• referent

• context

• usage

• origin

Mean Length of Utterance is defined as _____

• the average number of morphemes per utterance

• the total number of words in a sentence

• the average number of syllables per word

• the total number of sentences in a paragraph

Research has found that infants are unable to _____ in communicative exchanges with their parents.

• participate

• understand

• observe

• ignore